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>He also owns the X.com domain name, which now redirects to Twitter.

I get a GoDaddy parked domain page.

Edit: maybe some people aren't getting the parked page? It wasn't an attempt at a joke, that's what I see. Seems relevant given he's clearly pushing the idea. https://imgur.com/a/pi5B11K

  $ whois x.com | grep '^Registrar URL'
  Registrar URL: https://www.godaddy.com


To quote John Wayne’s character from “The Shootist”:

“That’s appropriate.”


I get that whois, but the redirect.


The parked page happens to not be a redirect. It's probably DNS TTLs. If you get redirected to twitter, you're seeing A records like 104.18.16.213 (Cloudflare). I'm seeing an A record of 34.102.136.180, which gives the parked page.

I think they changed the NS records to Cloudflare and the TTL hasn't run out on the original for many downstream DNS servers....

  $ host -t ns x.com
  x.com name server ns71.domaincontrol.com.
  x.com name server ns72.domaincontrol.com.
"domaincontrol.com" is the parked page service.




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